2023-08-10 20:16
Three Kings Chapel, Cuelim (2009)It was evening when we took the
narrow road up the slope before passing steps that zig zag up the laterite hill
to the Three Kings Chapel perched on top.
Vi… Read More
Blog Directory > Travel Blogs > Windy Skies travel Blog >
Windy Skies Blog
windyskies.blogspot.com
A personal weblog of experiences involving travel, people, images, stories of people and their lives. It includes Wildlife, Art exhibitions, Interviews, History, Festivals, events, and Photographs.
2023-08-09 21:01
A club is no ordinary matter in India. Starting
one is matter of pride to individuals called upon to join it, a stamp of
approval bestowed upon the individual, signifying his/her worth… Read More
2023-05-26 10:03
Goa.The lions
had lost their teeth.
The old
house had lost much else! Read More
2022-10-20 10:31
Amer,
Rajasthan
The horses
are long gone
And so are
the Royals.
There’s
finery no more,
Nor pomp
and splendour.
The Window
survives
In the
echoes of hoofs
Memories… Read More
2022-10-20 10:00
Jaipur,
Rajasthan
The Sun
slanted through an opening between buildings perched on a narrow lane, lighting
up leheriyas on sale in a shop manned by an elderly Muslim man whose yea… Read More
2022-06-20 12:34
Time elapsed. Memories did not. Presence is absent. Absence is present.Not a day goes by when I'm not reminded of you. You'll live as long as I do. And beyond.I wonder which star in th… Read More
2018-08-20 09:19
No
sooner the bespectacled Muslim man, accompanied by two others, took his place
on the platform with a large goat by the luggage compartment he quickly drew a
small Sunday crowd of fellow p… Read More
2018-08-09 06:24
Crawford Market Building (on the right)
We
emerged from the subway on D. N. Road and walked past the majestic Times of
India building toward Crawford Market.
Victoria Terminus (renam… Read More
2018-08-07 19:23
If
there’s a definition for a hole-in-the-wall business then you need look no
further than Mumbai footpaths.
While it’s not exactly a hole in the wall where a hand reach… Read More
2018-07-31 21:04
Sometime
back I travelled to the Santacruz Airport before A caught his flight out of Mumbai for
home after landing the US Visa for his upcoming US trip at the time.
He
spoke of the travai… Read More
2018-02-18 06:45
The
first contact with a rickshaw on a crowded and noisy Mumbai road, from the time
you hail it as it rolls along the road and you get a look at the rickshaw
driver trying to catch his eye a… Read More
2018-02-17 17:13
Of
late it no longer feels like a long walk from Kala Ghoda to V.T since the time
we took to winding our way through Bora Bazaar, dodging people and vehicles
without taking our eyes off the… Read More
2017-12-08 05:38
Click to enlarge
My street
photography exhibition – Transitions: Moments in Crossing – opens
at the Jehangir Art Gallery,
Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, next week from Dec 13 to Dec 19 (a… Read More
2017-04-08 22:34
Dr. M. A. Misquita’s
Family’
The nameplate bearing the name of
the doctor is set in the wall, held firm by four iron clamps that betray their
age, that of the nameplate, and o… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Murudeshwar, 2013
तस्मात्कालवशे विश्वं न स वि… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Goa
Many years ago my friend had a
home where this road ends on the banks of a large river.
Once in a while, on early
mornings or quiet afternoons, I would find myself on this road, rid… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
At one time, the Malik-e-Maidan (Lord Of The Plains) was the largest
medieval canon known to mankind. Now it stands in silence, muzzled as much by
the passage of time as by events that rende… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
There’s THIS …….
Horn Please
~
THEN there’s THIS ....
Horn Piles
And what’s more, it comes with an… Read More
2016-02-15 17:37
Packed with commuters heading
home, surviving the squeeze in the compartment of a rush hour local from V.T. is
less about withstanding the crush with your might than it is about being
oblivi… Read More
2016-02-07 20:35
It was a grey August morning when
I stepped out and made for the bus-stand for a bus to Margao. Clouds had opened
up from before dawn and the light had taken on a desultory tone.
I had w… Read More
2016-01-17 17:01
It’s been a busy winter for film
retrospectives of Indian Film Directors of yore.
Not long after Liberty screened a week long retrospective of
Shyam Benegal’s classics in Dec… Read More
2016-01-16 17:59
We reached Sathaye College
in Vile Parle just as the Open Mic session
of Day 2 of the theatre festival, Khidkiyaan,
kicked off on a small elevated stage overlooking the short passageway lead… Read More
2016-01-04 19:13
I heard the first roar around
five in the evening as I walked in from a small stretch of polluted beach
toward the Wall of Death rising among stalls and amusement rides in the
fairground acr… Read More
2015-12-23 20:20
I don’t visit Khotachiwadi often
so I use the two bulls flanking the entrance to Gaiwadi to alert me to
Khotachiwadi’s proximity on the drive from V.T.
Past Gaiwadi, just shor… Read More
2015-06-06 19:06
Not too many clicks into the past
when it was likely of those you met for the first time to introduce themselves
as Lakshmi, Gita, Ram, Hanuman, Lakshman, Purshottam, Rajiv, Jyoti, Gautam, R… Read More
2015-05-31 18:14
At the three-day Sindhi festival, the puppeteer grabs a quick bite
while the puppets look on Read More
2015-01-31 17:16
Udaipur, Navratri Time, 2014 Read More
2014-12-13 23:18
At the traffic signal I rest my
eyes on the lines in red sticker above the windshield, barely clearing the
bobbing skull cap of the impatient rickshaw driver as he waits for the signal
to tu… Read More
2014-11-22 09:28
Click images to
enlarge
My photography exhibition – Crossings: Moments in Passing – opens
at the Jehangir Art Gallery,
Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, next week from Nov 25 to… Read More
2014-10-15 20:02
Bundi, 2014
The younger milkman on the motorcycle, more modern of the two, in conversation
with the elderly milkman plying milk on his rusted but trusted bicycle around the old part
of Bun… Read More
2014-09-26 02:26
Mount Mary Church, 2014 Read More
2014-08-31 07:27
Anyone who has tried tearing a
milk packet with their teeth will know how difficult it is, much less drinking
from the irregular cut it opens in the plastic packet.
Now imagine a puppy wi… Read More
2014-07-05 16:48
“The bus left just five minutes
ago,” the youth in formal office wear and cradling his laptop bag said as I got into
the queue behind him in the shade of an old Pipal tree that h… Read More
2014-06-29 20:45
Daman, 2014
Where the Damanganga meets the sea.
Fishing boats had returned from their forays in the sea off the coast of Daman. The end of the fishing season was near, not in t… Read More
2014-05-27 18:24
In 2012 my friend, Philip, and I left
for Uttaranchal to see tigers and more, making Mohan our base from which to explore the Corbett National Park. It turned out to be an
unforgettable trip… Read More
2014-04-24 16:13
Windy Skies came to be.
I was looking for my machine that afternoon, and felt the need to write about it, here.
I’m not sure what I’m looking for now or i… Read More
2014-04-23 18:09
Mumbai goes to the polls tomorrow in the next phase of India's General Elections to cast its vote on who should govern India.
Stepping out early morning today it was impossible to miss the… Read More
2014-02-02 20:53
People go missing in Mumbai.
Dogs
go missing in Mumbai.
Sometimes people are not found.
Sometimes dogs are found Read More
2014-01-26 20:08
Images that stand on their own, each telling their own stories and
unrelated to one another, will sometimes yield a narrative to a meandering mind
when paired with each other, more by chance… Read More
2014-01-12 12:57
Sardar matlab Power. Power matlab Bike. Bike matlab Bullet.
When I first heard this from
someone I know closely, I had little doubt that Sardars would subscribe to it
as willingly and en… Read More
2013-12-15 09:48
Soon it was time for us to head back
to Goa from Malvan.
We left Malvan at half past three
soon after lunching at Bamboo Atithi.
People were still queuing up outside… Read More
Subscribe to Windy Skies
Get updates delivered right to your inbox!